[advocacy-discuss] Proposal: Community Maintainer of opensolaris.org News Page

[Jim Grisanzio]

Hernan Saltiel wrote:
> Jim:
>    If you think that a spanish-spoken page can exist there, count on me, but  not alone!
>    Greetings (Saludos!!!)
> 
> HeCSa.


Hi ...

Well, it's not a Spanish page, really. It's the main opensolaris.org 
news page. My (personal opinion here) hope is that that page grows to be 
multi-lingual, but that's just me. I haven't really heard any strong 
opinion for or against that part of the proposal. That's my pitch below, 
but I'll go along with whatever the consensus is.

If you want an exclusively Spanish news page, you already have it. Each 
User Group Project has its own news page, and, actually, so does the 
Advocacy CG itself. I have no interest in maintaining the Advocacy CG 
news page because I think it's way too much overlap. UG Projects need 
the freedom to have their own space (which they now do), and I'd like 
for this CG to maintain the main news page for the entire OpenSolaris 
community. That's a first, by the way. No other CG maintains a top level 
page on opensolairs.org.

So, if you'd like to contribute to the main page, that's great.

Jim
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> ----- Mensaje original ----
> De: Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM>
> Para: advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Enviado: lunes 30 de julio de 2007, 11:21:17
> Asunto: [advocacy-discuss] Proposal: Community Maintainer of opensolaris.org News Page
> 
> hey ...
> 
> I've been talking with Patrick Finch, and we've come up with a good idea
> that we'd like to propose to the Advocacy CG -- we are looking for
> someone (or maybe a small team) to maintain the top level news page on
> opensolaris.org: http://opensolaris.org/os/news/
> 
>  From a mechanical standpoint, this is easy. You just post a link, a
> date, and a few sentences of summary and you're done. However, from an
> informational standpoint, it's more challenging. It involves research
> and editorial judgment. It's a big deal, and it's an opportunity for
> some people to contribute substantially to the community and website.
> 
> The Advocacy Community Group is now responsible for this news page, and
> we think it can be maintained in an interesting way if we take an
> international approach. The Advocacy CG has more reach globally than any
> other CG on opensolaris.org since we sponsor about 50 User Group
> Projects with about 3,500 people in a couple dozen countries. That's not
> a bad start. And since OpenSolaris is clearly growing to embrace general
> users and more levels of developers, global communications and
> international relations are more important now than ever before. And
> this trend will only increase.
> 
> Also, that news page on opensolaris.org has always only pointed to
> English language news. That's fine since the majority of developers are
> talking English, but there are hundreds of millions of uses who are
> getting involved in our business who have chosen a different language
> and we really ought to point to some of their stuff. So, the news page
> should have Russian, French, Czech, English, Chinese, Spanish, and all
> sorts of languages all over it all day every day. It should be /the/
> place to go for news about OpenSolaris. It should have things that
> Google can't find, and it should be generated from the perspective of
> the OpenSolaris Community itself. I'm not talking about just posting
> some obvious news links; I'm talking about providing an international
> editorial service that people grow to trust so that anyone anywhere can
> get an accurate global snapshot of what's going on with OpenSolaris
> around the world.
> 
> So, this is what we have in mind for discussion:
> 
> - Maintainers become leaders in the Advocacy CG.
> - Maintainers get edit rights to news: http://opensolaris.org/os/news/
> - Maintainers manage the page and get their names posted at the top.
> - Maintainers provide summaries and editorial comment about news.
> - Maintainers must have good judgment when posting/summarizing articles:
>     articles just bashing OpenSolaris are not helpful, whereas articles
>     expressing reasonable criticisms are, and our editorial response is
>     just as important as the choice to link in the first place.
> - English language news is posted in English and non-English news is
>     posted with native language summaries.
> - Maintainers set their own schedule and procedures for acquiring news
>     (as long as it's based on engaging the OpenSolaris Community).
> - Maintainers write/publish an editorial policy for discussion outlining
>     what news qualifies to be cited and reviewed.
> - Maintains need the support of the community to be Maintainers.
> 
> That's the basic idea, but nothing is set in stone. If anyone is
> interested, let's all talk about it. There is still some stuff to figure 
> out ...
> 
> Jim